Trimming device



March 19, 1935. R. H. HOSKINS 1,995,251

TRIMMING DEVICE Filed Aug. 4, 1933 E ICE-.3...

INVENTOR HEY/711 HGSHYIYS AT RNEY5- Patented Mar. 19, 1935 1 I UNITED STATES PATENT' 'OFFICE TRIMMING DEVICE Raymond H. Hoskins, Long Beach, Calif.

Application August 4, 1933, Serial No. 683,706 1 Claim. (01. ad -241i This invention relates to improvements in trimblade 6 has an upwardly extending handle 12 seming devices and has particular reference to a cured thereto and it is through the medium of this device for trimming a lawn, and particularly the handle that the device is actuated. edge thereof, as for instance adjacent a walk or Referring now particularly to Fig. 1, it will be flower bed. noted that when the foot is placed upon the ex- 5 A further object is to produce a device which is tension 8 so as to rest upon the plate 9, as shown simple in construction and therefore, economical in this figure, the back stop 11 will enter the to manufacture. ground and bythen moving the handle 12 toward A further object is to produce a device which the right of the drawing, a shearing action will may be readily manipulated without requiring the occur. By now moving the handle toward the 10 operator to kneel, in order to effect the trimming left of the drawing and releasing the foot, the operation. blade 5 and its extension 8 will be advanced to- A still further object is to provide for an autoward the left of the drawing so that when pres- I matic advancement of the trimming elements'as sure is again placed on the extension 8, the back 15 the device is operated. stop will come to rest in a new spot and the cycle 15 Other objects and advantages will be apparent will be completed. In other words by manipuduring the course of the following description. lating the handle 12 back and forth, a creeping In the accompanying drawing forming a part action will be given to the tool, which creeping of this specification and in which like numerals action will permit the rapid and efiicient trimare employedto designate like parts throughout ming of the grass being operated upon. 20 the same, It is to be understood that the form of my in- Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my device, as the vention herewith shown and described is to be same would appear in use, taken as a preferred example of the same and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device, and that various changes relative to the material,

Figs. 3 and a are views of the respective trimsize, shape and arrangement of parts may be re- 25 ming elements. sorted to without. departing from the spirit of It is customary to trim grass adjacent Walks, the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim. flower beds and the like, so as to present a neat Having thus described my invention, I claim:-- 1 appearance. Applicant has, therefore, devised a In a device of the character described, a pair trimmer Which ay be Op d y he person of cutting ele'mentspivoted one to the other and While in a standing position, in counter-distincnormally operatable substantially in a vertical tion to the customary hand-operated trimming plane, one of said elements having an extension shears which require the user to crawl upon the formed thereonand extending rearwardly therehands and knees during the trimming or cutting from, a foot plate mounted on said extension, a

Operation With p n device, the mming back stop secured to the end of said extension, 35 may be accomplished while in an erect position. saidback stop having a downwardly extending In the accompanying drawing wherein for the cutting edge and being capable of penetrating a purpose of illustration is shown a preferred em ground surface when pressure is applied to said bodiment of my invention, the numerals 5 and foot plate, the other of said cutting elements hav- 6 designate the trimming blades or cutting eleing a handle connected thereto and extending up- 40 ments. The blade 5 is pivoted to the blade 6, as wardly and rearwardly, whereby said blades may at 7. This blade 5 has an extension 8, upon which be operated. is secured a foot piece 9 and a back stop 11. The RAYMOND H. HOSKINS. 

